Jack White Long Lost Single Surfaces After Being Hidden Inside Furniture for a Decade

At the turn of the millennium, Jack White and his friend Brian Muldoon were part of a band called the Upholsterers. The joke: White and Muldoon were actual upholsterers—renovating furniture is what they did for a living. In an early example of the creative release strategies White would go on to regularly employ a decade later with his Third Man Records, the band released one of their singles by… sewing copies into pieces of furniture that White and Muldoon had been commissioned to reupholster. They didn’t tell the customers they were doing this, though.

As Third Man says, 100 copies of the single were hidden back in 2004. They say that two copies have recently been found by two separate individuals, which means a potential 98 are still out there. Third Man has now shared photos of the art for the single, which was done by Gordon Newton. 

The Upholsterers did release one single in a conventional fashion, via the label Sympathy for the Record Industry in 2000. Here’s a track from it:

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